The Resource The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
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The item The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The Joy Luck Club
- Title
- The Joy Luck Club
- Statement of responsibility
- Amy Tan
- Subject
-
- Large type books
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueMothers and daughters -- San Francisco, California
- Domestic fiction
- trueSan Francisco, California
- trueChinese in California
- trueWomen's lives and relationships
- trueChinese American women -- Identity
- trueFriendship
- Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- trueFemale friendship
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueGeneration gap
- trueImmigrants, Chinese
- trueBooks to movies
- trueImmigrants
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- After being drawn together by the shadows of their past, four women start meeting every week in San Francisco to engage in hobbies they all enjoy. After one of the four members dies, her daughter takes her place to fulfill her mother's dying wish. After the revelation of a secret, the women are forced to think back to their pasts and remember the sometimes painful events of their lives
- Award
-
- ALA Notable Book, 1990.
- YALSA 100 Best Books, 1950-2000
- Great American Read, 2018.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 058448
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Tan, Amy
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3570.A48
- LC item number
- J6 1989b
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Chinese Americans
- Mothers and daughters
- Large type books
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 131325
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 443 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780896218802
- Isbn Type
- (lg. print : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 89034725
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm19921003
- Label
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 131325
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 443 pages
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780896218802
- Isbn Type
- (lg. print : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 89034725
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocm19921003
Subject
- trueBooks to movies
- trueChinese American women -- Identity
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- trueChinese in California
- Domestic fiction
- trueFemale friendship
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueFriendship
- trueGeneration gap
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueImmigrants
- trueImmigrants, Chinese
- Large type books
- trueMothers and daughters -- San Francisco, California
- Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueSan Francisco, California
- trueWomen's lives and relationships
Genre
- trueBooks to movies
- trueDomestic fiction
- Fiction
- trueFirst person narratives
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueMultiple perspectives
- trueWomen's lives and relationships
Included in
- trueALA Notable Books - Fiction: 1990
- trueGreat American Read 2018
- trueYALSA 100 Best Books (1950-2000)
Tone Tone is the feeling that a book evokes in the reader. In many cases, this category best answers the question, "What are you in the mood for?"
Writing style Writing style terms tell us how a book is written, from the complexity of the language to the level of the detail in the background.
Character Only applied to fiction books, character appeal is especially for those readers who love books *because* of the characters.
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